Safety is the last refuge of the scoundrel!

Welcome...to Jurassic Park!

Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had.

The extreme positions of the Crossfire Syndrome require extreme simplification - framing the debate in terms which ignore the real issues.

Let's be clear. The planet is not in jeopardy. We are in jeopardy. We haven't got the power to destroy the planet - or to save it. But we might have the power to save ourselves.

Books aren't written - they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn't quite done it.

You think you can destroy the planet? What intoxicating vanity. . . . . We've been residents here for the blink of an eye. If we're gone tomorrow, the earth will not miss us.

Life is wonderful. It's a gift to be alive, to see the sun and breathe the air. And there isn't really anything else.

It's better to die laughing than to live each moment in fear.

Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice.

Social control is best managed through fear.

You can never recover from losing a person you love, but you can find a way to let it be part of your life rather than letting it take over every part of you

It's pathetic how we can't live with the things we don't understand. How we need everything labeled and explained and deconstructed. Even if it's for sure unexplainable. Even God.

To me, patriotism is about working ethically and wholeheartedly in our chosen field.

A cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day.

Part of me is probably more conservative than people realise. I like my old string quartets, I don't like music that's trippy for trippy's sake.

There is no true healing unless there is a change in outlook, peace of mind and inner happiness

You can tell all you need to about a society from how it treats animals and beaches.

One can lie with the mouth, but with the accompanying grimace one nevertheless tells the truth.

Men can be a great deal of work for very little reward.

The enterprise, by definition, must be capable of producing more or better than all the resources that comprise it.